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Tina Brown Unveils New Newsweek

Yawn.



The new cover features United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the magazine’s special edition, “150 Women Who Shake the World.”

Brown, who previously captained Vanity Fair and the New Yorker magazines, took over the flailing news-weekly in November when it merged with her website, The Daily Beast, which launched in October 2008. Brown is now the editor in chief of both the Daily Beast website and the new Newsweek.

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Although Brown is one of the most highly respected magazine editors in the world, her legendary 35-year career has not been without the occasional disappointment, such as the much-heralded but short-lived Talk magazine – which also featured Hillary Clinton on the front cover of its first issue.

Thoughts on the new look? Can Brown save the dog cage-liner that is the tissue-thin Newsweek? Or is a lefty editor taking over a publication that lost an audience due to people not wanting to overpay for lefty opinions like washing your dirty dishes with a dirty dishcloth?


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